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How Raspberry Pi helps industrial customers bring fully compliant products to market faster. The post Product compliance, demystified: how Raspberry Pi helps you get to market appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
Dirt cheap toy cameras have long been a target for the curious camera hacker, and we’ve seen plenty of lens swaps and other hardware hacks. Until now their internals have …read more
Was it all a dream? When searching for “Zelda,” inserting the Master Sword returns the Google page to the year 1998 Tomorrow, Nintendo is releasing a remake to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The original game…
Although not very glamorous, wax motors are a fairly common type of linear actuator. They use the thermal response of waxes and the resulting volumetric expansion or reduction to create …read more
Armstrong Communications reports on NASA’s site that the agency has flown a landing guidance system on a drone over Rogers Dry Lake, near NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. An Alta-X drone…
Ivan Franco writes at TechSpot about Remote Mouse, an app that turns a phone or tablet into a wireless mouse, keyboard and touchpad for a computer. It runs on iOS and Android, and the helper software it talks to works…
Maya Posch, writing on Hackaday, covers a build from Current Concept that tries to move a go-kart with a $1 brushed DC motor and a very big gear reduction. The trick is a 3D printed compound gearbox with a 1,243:1…
Ryan Whitwam at Ars Technica reports that Google has hidden an Easter egg in its search results to mark the remaster of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Search for “Zelda” or “Ocarina of Time” and a normal 2026…
Laura Baisas writes in Popular Science that items from Stanley Kubrick’s personal archive are going up for auction for the first time. Equipment, props, scripts and more come directly from the Stanley Kubrick Film…
Adafruit WipperSnapper Firmware 1.0.0 beta 134 has been released on GitHub. This is the latest version of WipperSnapper and a stable release. It adds support for hidden wireless networks, which refuse to broadcast their…
It seems fair to say that semiconductor technology has been one of the most influential inventions in human history. Practically overnight it turned human technology from being large, cumbersome and …read more
Rasmus Moorats bought a 2014 Renault Latitude and the previous owner asked whether he wanted a “navigation map SD card” with it. They mentioned that the car apparently needs this SD card just to change the time on the…
Gil Tal has published ESP32_P4_Launcher on GitHub, firmware that runs programs off an SD card on an ESP32-P4 the way a PC runs a program from a disk. The launcher stays in flash. Apps are .papp files on the card: pick…
Marcin Wichary, writing on his blog Unsung, noticed a feature in the Internet Archive he hadn’t seen before: an alphabet bar that appears when you sort a collection by title. Click a letter and you jump to the items…
A community writer at It’s FOSS runs a homelab of 5 machines and about 30 Docker containers, and got tired of a bookmarks folder full of IP addresses and port numbers. Tailscale got them into the network from anywhere,…
Adam Zewe at MIT News reports that MIT researchers will lead a four-year project, funded with up to $38 million from the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, to build a wearable patch that watches for…
Peter Hall, writing for Scientific American, reports on a run of attacks that turned supermarket freezers into ovens. In October, attackers hit refrigeration systems at hundreds of grocery stores in France. On the night…
Olimex has announced UEXT-CH390 on the company blog, a small open source hardware module that adds 100 Mbit wired Ethernet to any board with a UEXT or pUEXT connector. UEXT is Olimex’s own connector standard for add-on…
The Hackaday Superconference is back for its 10th year, running November 6th through 8th, 2026. Tickets are on sale through Eventbrite. Friday starts at Supplyframe HQ in Pasadena, California. Bruce Potter’s keynote…
Sourav Rudra took a first look at Pond for It’s FOSS, a new rolling-release Linux distribution built on Arch Linux by Butterfly Interaction Inc. It’s labeled an early preview. The desktop runs Niri, a Wayland compositor…
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